Oh boy. 10 – 15 inches of snow headed our way tonight into tomorrow. I know some of you to the west of us are already getting hammered.
Don, honey…I’m glad you’ve got that snowblower because I am not up for shoveling at this point in time. Maybe a bit of shoveling for Dame Scout’s mini-corral, if I’m feeling better, but that’s about it. Right now, even that seems an impossibility.
Let’s look at something pretty. Friday night’s sunset:
Pretty spectacular. Isn’t it nice that I can just pop my head out the kitchen door and capture this beauty?
Today’s topic: Name Your Ten Favorite Movies.
I’ll start off, in no particular order, and I know as soon as I see your lists, I’ll remember others that I love. These are movies that I will immediately drop whatever I’m doing to watch.
It’s truly hard to narrow the list down to ten, but give it your best shot.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (no surprise there)
2. Anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
3. All the President’s Men
4. It Happened One Night
5. Big Country
6. The Awful Truth
7. His Girl Friday
8. Anything with Audrey Hepburn
9. It’s a Wonderful Life
10. The Shop Around the Corner
11. Add on: Cinema Paradiso
Okay. Your turn. I may or may not comment, depending on how I’m feeling.
(I probably will.)
Happy Sunday.
Gone With The Wind, White Christmas, The Big Chill, Terms of Endearment, Four Seasons, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Sleepless in Seattle, The Sting, Goodfellas, Les Miserables
Eclectic list I know, but these are the ones I will watch again and again.
Eclectic is good – I’m all for eclectic, Vicki! Thanks!
Good Morning Claudia, Here is my list: Places in the Heart, The Quartet, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Cool Running, Michael, Scent of A woman, Bucket list, on Golden Pond, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Yankee Doodle Dandy. It is hard for me to remember names of movies I like so I had to get my thinking cap on!! Doris
You did a good job, Doris! It’s hard to remember them all, isn’t it? Thank you!
hope you feel better soon!
lovely blog you have – the photos of your sweet pup and cottage and your obvious love for them and for your husband, your choice of words and books and now movies … thanks for all you share.
here are some of my favorite movies:
it’s a wonderful life
Jesus Christ, superstar
the ten commandments
you’ve got mail
sleepless in seattle
rear window
north by northwest
the goodbye girl
dan in real life
while you were sleeping
shop around the corner
amelie
old b/w westerns
planes, trains and automobiles
…
I live in the midwest and we are now getting lots of snow (finally … been a pretty dry, mild winter here so far). hope no one gets clobbered with it and stays safe.
thanks again.
kathy in des moines
You are very welcome, Kathy. What a good list of movies! I didn’t have room for You’ve Got Mail on mine, but oh, I really love it!
Oh my, let’s see: To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Cutting Edge(a Mother/Daughter fav), Pretty Woman, Titanic (the old one with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck), An Affair to Remember (with Cary Grant), Apollo 13, Dirty Dancing, Funny Girl,The Way We Were, The American President and The Pelican Brief.
I like the Affair to Remember with Cary Grant the best, too! Good list, Linda – thank you!
Here’s my list: Julie and Julia, Ground Hog Day, The Music Man, Gosford Park, Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley, Moonlight Kingdom, Lili, Places in the Heart, The Lion in Winter, and Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House. Talk about eclectic….I’m pretty much all over the place. Of course, there are more. I had to go back and forth crossing things off and I’m still not sure if this is my perfect ten, but I have loved each of these movies and watched everyone of them multiple times. Is it snowing now? We live in a desert community in Eastern Washington and get very little precipitation. I don’t want to be snowed in, but we could use some more moisture and a little of the white stuff would be a treat…notice, I said “a little”. Keep warm and get to feeling better.
If I had an extended list, The Music Man would be on it. It makes me happy. It’s beautifully done. And it conjures up memories of my family actually going to the movie theater to see it. Thanks, Sandra.
1. Howard’s End
2. Enchanted April
3, Mrs. Minerva
4. The Enchanted Cottage
5. Giant
6. The Age of Innocence
7. 84 Charing Cross Road
8. Godfather 1 and 2
9. Julie and Julia
10. Amelie
I know I’m going to think of another one that bumps one of these off 2 minutes after I hit publish.
Stay safe, Claudia & Don!
Dewena
P.S. Not listing Christmas movies here, if I were I’d have to say The Bishop’s Wife for Cary Grant and Loretta Young and Love Actually for the spectacular cast but especially my favorite actress Emma Thompson.
Love Emma Thompson, love The Bishops’s Wife. We recently watched 84 Charing Cross Road. I’d seen it before, but Don hadn’t. It is a simply wonderful movie. Thanks, Dewena! A good list!
Love this ‘assignment’ Claudia!
1. That Darn Cat – my 1st big screen experience. I was enthralled.
2. Paper Chase
3. Out of Africa
4. Brother from Another Planet
5. Last Dance – because The Band and LeVon Helm were just the best.
6. Big Chill
7. Out of Africa
8. Desperately Seeking Susan
9. Repo Man
10. Toy Story – my son’s 1st movie and the site of his only fall-on-floor tantrum from sheer emotional overload.
Love your list, Kaye, especially the bit about your son!
The late, great Levon Helm lived just north of us in Woodstock. He is missed.
I know I will thing of others, but my mind is blank right now.
to killl a mockingbird
the godfather
guess who’s coming to dinner
12 angry men
anything with doris day/rock hudson/james garner
gone with the wind
the out of towners (original)
holiday inn
the sting
blazing saddles :)
Now I’m adding to my list, inspired by yours: Pillow Talk. Love, love that movie. Perfection.
Lots of good movies coming on TCM for their 31 days of Oscar. Can’t wait.
I should add to my list anything Hitchcock.
I love this time of year on TCM. I also love Hitchcock.
My Life as a House
The English Patient
You’ve Got Mail
Out of Africa
The Horse Whisperer
The Bridges of Madisson County
Terms of Endearment
Forrest Gump
Dances with Wolves
Pollyanna
I could have added dozens!! These are just what come to mind. Anything with Meryl Streep!
Love from Julie in sweltering Western Australia
Yes, Meryl is brilliant. Oh and I love Pollyanna, too! Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman…you can’t beat it.
With tv shows being what the are now , thank goodness for TCM. I especially love the classic movies. Here’s some of my favorites. Some are considered Christmas movies but I’ll watch them all year.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
The Bishops Wife
Since You Went Away
Kitty Foyle (I’m a Philly girl)
All that Heaven Allows
Christmas in Connecticut
Christmas Vacation
Little Women (Winona Ryder version)
And last but not least – It’s a Wonderful Life – just love the message
Claudia, I hope you feel better soon.
Oh yes, thank the gods for TCM! Great list, Cindy. And you know that I call my decorating style, “Christmas in Connecticut” so I like that movie, too.
This will be fun. I was reminded of some of my favorites by reading the preceding comments. But my all-time favorite has to be Benny and Joon! Also, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Bishop’s Wife, An Affair to Remember (Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr), Bringing Up Baby, Any and all of The Thin Man movies, It’s a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace, Wuthering Heights,On Golden Pond —this may be more than ten if you count all of the Thin Man movies individually. If not, I’ll add any movie with Cary Grant and a fox terrier in it! Whew!
Cary Grant and a fox terrier would include one of the ones on my list: The Awful Truth. I cheated, too, lumping all Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers movies and all Audrey Hepburn movies together! Thanks, Shanna!
here they are in no particular order
Lilo and Stitch (no, I am not 6) it makes me laugh and cry
Galaxy Quest (Alan Rickman!)
Sense and Sensibility (Alan Rickman)
The Remains of the Day
The Princess Bride
Singin’ in the Rain
Shadowlands (bring tissues)
Jurassic Park
To Kill a Mockingbird
Quartet (Maggie Smith)
Ooh, good list, Loretta. I have yet to see Quartet, though Don has seen it and really liked it. Thanks!
I just love movies that I can re watch with husband and friends and repeat the lines as they are spoken in the movie.
Go easy on the shovelling. My friend just broke ribs without realizing it from snow shovelling. Big ouch!
I have no choice but to go easy as I’m still under the weather. Don….over to you!
Sorry, but my list just has to include Ed Wood, too.
Our lists will never be taken care of in just ten titles, Shanna!
Your number one is my number one. I reread the book about every 3 years. Right on with the Astair/Rogers duo. My list would also include Thin Man series , Philadelphia Story with Grant, Hepburn, and Stewart and You’ve Got Mail. You have a few on your list I have not seen- thank you- I will check them out! Happy Sunday! Lani
Philadelphia Story is a classic, a wonderful movie! And I want to live in Meg Ryan’s apartment in You’ve Got Mail. Thanks, Lani!
Wait- I forgot A Big Night! Lani
xo
Love movies!
1. Heartburn
2. You’ve Got Mail
3. Little Women (3 versions)
4. Mixed Nuts – favorite Christmas movie
5. Accidental Tourist
6. Reds
7. Dr. Zhivago
8. Miss Potter
9. Shadowland
10. Most Black and White movies – love TCM
Boy do I love black and white movies and TCM! We watched 20th Century last night with John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Sigh. Thanks, Liz!
Nobody mentioned Casablanca!
You did, Carolyn Marie. But now you have to come up with nine more.
In no particular order: It’s a Wonderful Life, Something’s Gotta Give, Leap Year, Christmas in Connecticut, Star Wars(4,5,&6), Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Out of Africa, Apollo 13, and of course…James Bond, especially with Daniel Craig. And many more…can’t be just 10! Enjoy the snow..we’ve already got about 6 inches, terrific drifting…it’s quite beautiful! ;)
Oh, that Daniel Craig….he’s my favorite James Bond. Thanks Donnamae!
1. The Thin Man movies
2. Davinci Code
3. Sleepless in Seattle
4. Bringing up Baby
5. Love Actually
6. Charlie Chan movies (haven’t seen these in quite some time!)
7. You’ve Got Mail (quests I have a thing for Tom Hanks?!)
8. Gene Autrey westerns…(I wanted to be a cowgirl)
9. An Affair to Remember (with Kerr and Grant)
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (I prefer the dubbed Swedish movies in this series-closer to the books…but Daniel Craig makes my heart thump).
I could go on and on if I thougt about it but these are the ones I could remember off the top of my head.
Feel better! I had the flu one week, then a rotten cold the next. Now I feel so much better but had my toe worked on which is slowing me down.
Hug Scout for me!
I much prefer the Swedish Versions of the The Girl With…movies, as well. So, so good!
I have dozens of favourites that I’m happy to lend, but can’t part with permanently. Here are ten (in no particular order) that would stop my cleaning house on a Saturday morning if they were suddenly aired:
1. Basquiat (1996 – bio/drama by Julian Schnabel)
2. All About Eve (1950 – I’m a big fan of George Sanders)
3. Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (2005 – German, heart-wrenching true story, because I need to cry sometimes)
4. Little Women (1949 – with June Allyson)
5. The Dinner Game (1998 – French, I laughed so damn hard I almost fell off the couch. Why, oh why, was it remade as that dreadful “Dinner for Schmucks”?)
6. Bladerunner (1982 – I love Ridley Scott movies)
7. Cabaret (1972)
8. A Christmas Carol (1951 – with Alistair Sim)
9. Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987 -French, because I’m slightly obsessed with WWII movies and need to cry even more)
10. Sense and Sensibility (1995 – oh that Alan Rickman, need I say more?)
Hope you’re feeling better soon! I vote Winter done.
Love, love All About Eve and Don and I are Alastair Sim and only Alastair Sim as Scrooge fans. We own a copy of that version, we love it so much.
Love Mr. Rickman, as well. I got to see him onstage in Edinburgh many years ago. Sigh.
My daughter says it’s either the ibuprofen for my back or I’m losing it, but she can’t believe I didn’t include “Dial M for Murder” or “Glengarry Glen Ross”. (Smacks head.) So many favourites..
I can’t believe you got to see Alan Rickman – even my toes are turning green with envy!
This is the thing about this little game…we keep thinking of more and more titles. I just added Cinema Paradiso to my list (that makes 11 and counting.)
1. Gone with the Wind
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Places in the Heart
4. Norma Rae (Love Sally Field)
5. The Friendly Persuasion
6. The More the Merrier
7. Gaslight
8. Shadow of a Doubt (Love Joseph Cotton, too)
9. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
10. Anything with Irene Dunne
Hope you are feeling better.
We are big Irene Dunne fans, too. She was simply glorious, wasn’t she? Thanks, Sha Sha!
Oh, and all of the BBC period movies.
They do it so well!
Here’s mine in no particular order: Amelie, Stalag 17, Sophie’s Choice, 36 hours (with James Garner), Heidi (with Shirley Temple), Bourne Identity series, Love Actually and The Sound of Music. I know, I’m all over the map! Jen
Sophie’s Choice kills me. So did the novel. I can’t watch it anymore because it just makes me sob and sob!
The Sound of Music takes me to my very happy place.
1. The Dead
2. Christmas in Connecticut, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Bishop’s Wife, The Shop Around the Corner , Remember the Night (am I cheating here?)
3. Fanny and Alexander
4. Remains of the Day
5. Born Yesterday
6. The Women
7. Susan and God
8. Gaslight
9. The More the Merrier
10 Nothing Sacred
Well that was hard — and fun. Hope seeing and considering all these lists distracts you a little from your miseries.
Margaret
Yes, you’re cheating, but in an ingenious way! Great list, Margaret!
My Ten Favorite Movies, that is so hard to choose:
1. Pretty Woman
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Love Actually
4. Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis)
5. A&E Pride and Prejudice (Collin Firth)
6. Dances with Wolves
7. Labyrinth
8. Speed
9. Batteries Not Included
10. Overboard
These are the ones that come to mind right away…but there are others that I love to watch.
Yes, and yes. P & P with Colin Firth – none better. Love Speed – total escape, isn’t it? And I so remember seeing The Last of the Mohicans and swooning over Daniel Day Lewis….what does he say? “I WILL find you!” Swoon.
OK – my list is really eclectic!!
Same Time Next Year
Pretty Woman
Titanic
Gone With The Wind’
Jurassic Park
Die Hard – all of them
Star Wars
Christmas Story – this was John’s all time favorite
Quite a variety, eh? Hope you are staying warm and feeling better.
Judy
Somehow we missed Christmas Story this year, but I will always watch it and think of John, Judy.
I love all the Die Hard movies, too. Total fun!
Here’s my list:
1. Babette’s Feast
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Bishop’s Wife
4. To Kill a Mockingbird
5. It’s a Wonderful Life
6. White Christmas
7. It Happened One Night
8. Little Shop Around the Corner
9. The Mortal Storm
10. The Man Who Knew Too Much
Such a good list, though I don’t think I’ve seen The Mortal Storm…I’ll have to check that out! Thanks, Debbie!
I first watched The Mortal Storm on TV with my mom when I was a young teen. It’s an early James Stewart / Margaret Sullivan film. I’ve read that it was made to show people the dangers of Hitler and his Nazi party.
Oh, wait…. I think I have seen that, now that you describe it. I remember it. And how can we resist Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan?
“The Mortal Storm” is wonderful… and heartbreaking… and hopeful. Great movie.
# 8 should be The Shop Around the Corner!
I knew what you meant!
Hi Claudia, today is definitely a stay-home-in-jammies day to watch lots of movies and read. Some of my favorites are:
To Kill a Mockingbird (definitely)
The Best of Youth (subtitled)
The Big Night
Howard’s End
Vanity Fair
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Scent of a Woman
The Edge
Tea With Mussolini
Feel better! xxoo
Oh, what a good list! All these lists make me want to watch some movies!
I’m not really cheating again, but Victor, my elderly feline film viewing friend (John, the elderly husband, not so into movies), is a great fan of both Val Lewton and Preston Sturges and demands the inclusion of the following:
1. Cat People
2. Curse of the Cat People
3. The Leopard Man
4. The Seventh Victim
5. Palm Beach Story
6. Sullivan’s Travels
7. Hail the Conquering Hero
8. The Lady Eve
9. The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
and just because we both love it,
10. Phffft!
Margaret
We are big Preston Sturges fans here at MHC. Never get tired of those movies!
Charlie Wilson’s War
To Kill a Mockingbird
Written before reading others’ comments to avoid an all-day process…
Dances with Wolves
Daughters of the Dust
Thelma and Louise
Out of Africa
Love Actually
Birdsong (2-part mini)
Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The End of the Parade
A Love Song for Bobby Long
Good list – with some titles I’m not familiar with, which is always a good thing!
1. You’ve Got Mail
2. The Horse Whisperer
3. Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightly version)
4. Little Women (Wynonna Ryder version)
5. Pollyanna
6. Follow Me Boys (Fred MacMurrey)
7. Miss Potter
8. The Sting
9. The Bridges of Madison County
10. Murphy’s Romance
And only about a million more … that’s a hard list to narrow down!
Almost impossible to narrow down. One title brings to mind another…and another….
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca
Rear Window
Singing In The Rain
Jane Eyre
Wizard Of Oz
Creature From The Black Lagoon
Meet Me in Saint Louis
The Bad Seed
Jumbo
Love Meet Me in St. Louis and Jumbo – both movies I grew up watching and love watching to this day!
Many already listed but here a few I would add:
Second Hand Lyons (watch w/ the director’s cut sometime-well worth it!)
Fried Green Tomatoes
The King and I
Anna and the King
The Holiday
The Joy Luck Club
Ted Turner’s “Gettysburg” (the history geek in me coming out)
Repeats: Pride and Prejudice (BBC Colin Firth, a must watch once a year!)
Something’s Got To Give
Thin Man Series (love, love Asta!)
That dog who played Asta was mega-talented. He’s in The Awful Truth, too. Talk about personality!
I love reading everyone’s lists. I am reminded of so many films I had forgotten and I am making a new to-see list as i read everyone’s favourites. Ok, I know I will revise this as soon as I hit ‘post comment’ but here goes:
I Know Where I”m Going
All that Heaven Allows
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Pride and Prejudice (The Joe Wright, Keira Knightley one)
Mrs Miniver
Two for the Road
Goodfellas
French Kiss
Moonstruck
What’s Up Doc?
(and those that almost made it: Love Songs, Rear Window, The Earrings of Madame de . . .). This was a fun thing to do while eating breakfast. Thank you.
Oh goodness. Two for the Road – the music, the story, makes me cry…
Don would give a definite thumbs up for Moonstruck – He LOVES that movie!
Gone With the Wind, The Ten Commandments, From Here to Eternity,
A Christmas Carol, all John Wayne westerns, Three Coins in the Fountain, The Wizard of Oz, Christmas in Connecticut, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, Song of the South, It’s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story
What a good list, Suzanne! You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Song of the South! I have to remedy that.
OK, now I’ve read the others and must add to mine, can’t stop :) :
Last of the Mohicans
Finding Neverland
The Hours
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The English Patient
Basquiat
Something’s Gotta Give
Miss Potter
Skyfall
The Borne Trilogy
Oh, give me some Daniel Craig in Skyfall! Love that movie. Thanks, Ann!
Everyone has listed such wonderful movies!!
Mine ~~
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Enchanted Cottage
Julie and Julia
Avalon
The Graduate
Singing in the Rain
Murphy’s Romance
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
The Big Chill
Up (I know it is animated, but I cry every time I watch it.)
Love A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Don always says the Francie reminds him of me and what I must have been like as a young girl. Cry my eyes out during that movie.
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Grand hotel
Singing in the Rain
Rear Window
It Happened One Night
The Apartment
Witness for the Prosecution
Sunset Blvd.
The Shop Around the Corner
For fun, Grumpy Old Men and The Cheap Detective
Christmas Movies, A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim, It’s a Wonderful Life, and A Christmas Story
I probably have ten or fifteen more favorites.
Such great lists from everyone! Now I want to watch some movies!
Everyone has such great lists! Here are my choices:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Shawshank Redemption
The Best Years of Our Lives
Gone With the Wind
Casablanca
The Women (original)
Titanic
All About Eve
The Thin Man (I finally saw it for the first time a few weeks ago)
Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes
I could go on and on…
Good movies all – another great list. Thanks, Carol!
I’ve had to split my list into “older” and more contemporary movies…in no particular order, otherwise that would entail more thinking, for which I cannot do after having a very late night! I loved reading everyone’s choices! Such a great list of movies. BTW, feel better!
Older
Sabrina with A Hepburn
Little Women, one with K Hepburn and the other with E Taylor
My Fair Lady
Mary Poppins
The Ugly Dachshund
Casablanca
McLintock with J Wayne and the fabulous M O’Hara
the Thin Man series
any Katharine Hepburn, my favorite
White Christmas, our traditional movie of choice on Christmas Eve
Contemporary
Sabrina with J Ormond
Little Woman with S Sarandon
Miss Potter
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The King’s Speech
The Incredibles
any Jane Austen production, but especially P & P with Firth and Ehle
Love Actually
Letters to Juliet
Good lists -both older and contemporary, Wendy! For some reason, I haven’t seen Miss Potter and I have to fix that as soon as possible!
I loved Renee Zellweger in Miss Potter….before she changed her looks. You should ask for the top 10 movie soundtracks…that would be an entirely different list altogether.
In random order: Rear Window, Seven Years in Tibet, Where the Heart Is, Mrs. Brown, Becoming Jane, Pursuit of Happyness, Painted Veil, Marathon Man, Frequency, Benny and Joon. I actually have more than ten, but these are the ones that came to mind.
A very eclectic list, Gina! I like it.
Only 10, Claudia? I’ll do my best (and cheat a little too).
1. Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Now, Voyager
4. Casablanca
5. Rio Grande
6. Harry Potter (the series)
7. Shane
8. The Last of the Mohicans
9. The Jolson Story
10. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I think Gone With the Wind is on a lot of lists, Marianne. I’m also noticing Casablancaand Butch Cassidy crop up frequently. These lists are so interesting!
So many movies……so little time!
Miss Potter
The Holiday
Love Actually
You’ve Got Mail
Price and Prejudice (Colin Firth)
Mrs. Miniver
Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson)
The Help
It’s Complicated
North by Northwest
Good ones, all. Love Sense and Sensibility with Emma. That scene where she breaks down and cries in the drawing room when Hugh Grant visits (near the end of the movie) is beautifully done. She is amazing.
Here ya go: Out of Africa, The Enchanted Cottage, Somewhere in Time, The Others, Bull Durham, Pride and Prejudice , African Queen, Charlotte Grey, Sleepless in Seattle, Castaway. We saw the The Imitation Game yesterday. It was very good.
So looking forward to The Imitation Game – I’m a big old fan of Benedict Cumberbatch and this particular story fascinates me. Thanks, Cindy!
Oh yeah….. Steel Magnolia. It was filmed in the “big” town in Louisiana close to where my grandmother lived. Traveled there from Texas a lot when I was a child.
That’s a nice connection!
Here’s my list for right now, I’m sure it will be different tomorrow!
1. The Sound of Music
2. All About Eve
3. A Christmas Carol (1938)
4. Rear Window
5. Shadow of a Doubt
6. Four weddings and a Funeral
7. The Apartment
8. Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
9. The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills)
10. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I was watching P.S. I Love You the other night Claudia, and said to myself, that mailman looks like Don! And of course it was.
Yes, it was!
Was it in The Parent Trap that Hayley Mills sang “Let’s Get Together?” I think it was. I loved that movie too!
Only ten? Oh good grief. At last count there are 185 movies on my “Favorites” list [yep, I actually keep a list – mostly because I don’t want to forget any]. Well, OK here goes:
All the President’s Men [love historical films]
Auntie Mamie [a tour de force for Rosalind Russell]
Field of Dreams [just magical]
The Godfather [so well-done in every way]
The Man Who Came to Dinner [the Golden Age of wit in the movies]
Moonstruck [the movie with the most number of quotable lines ever, imo]
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House [spot-on perfect performances by every single person
Quiz Show [directed by Robert Redford, and not a wrong note in the entire film]
The Remains of the Day [same as Quiz Show – no sour notes]
State of the Union [to me the very best Tracy & Hepburn movie ever, and one you never hear mentioned].
If I can add a category or two, I’d say most everything by Frank Capra, and Alfred Hitchcock. PS – feel better soon.
Love Field of Dreams and never tire of it. Frank Capra? I bow at his feet. I love everything he ever directed. Same with Hitchcock.
The Man Who Came to Dinner was a play before it was movie, it was also the golden age of wit onstage!
Claudia! I was blog-hopping around and your name came up (turns out it was a different Claudia) which got me wondering what you were up to – okay, before I go any further, I have to say that I am in LOVE with your dog – that pic with him on the sofa is just the best ever. Your photography just gets better and better and I so enjoyed catching up on some of your posts. Your blog is just beautiful and I smiled all the way through it.
Okay, my list – this is challenging because I am HORRIBLE at remembering names- ANY name – movies, songs, people, actors, bands, – trust me, you would never want me as a trivial pursuit partner. But this missing gene of mine is a quirk my honey finds endearing…..
Okay, if I get the name right, here is my list:
Lars and the Real Girl
Brother Oh Where art Thou
Fiddler on The Roof (original musical)
Some like it Hot
Rear Window
Anchor Man (I know, sad, right?)
Sleepless in Seattle
It’s a Wonderful Life
The King’s Speech
Julie and Julia
The Devil wears Prada
Four Christmases
(I know, just realized the list is more than 10…can’t count either….!)
Stay warm and thanks for sharing your pics.
Lots of big hugs
Elizabeth
Great list, Elizabeth! Forgot all about Some Like It Hot – a true classic!
So good to hear from you and any compliment from you about photography makes me very happy indeed! xoxo
Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Elf, Cinderella (with Stuart Damon and Leslie Ann Warren), Oklahoma, State Fair, Mary Poppins, Night at the Museum series, and anything with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland. Love musicals!
I’ll let you keep Cinderella in there, although it was made for television originally! (I love it too and remember it and also have the soundtrack for it somewhere around here.) “Ten Minutes Ago I Saw You” – sigh. Such lovely music!
my list would mostly be a repeat of others but I think my favorite all time movies would be Jerimiah Johnson and Hoosiers. I also wanted to thank you for the recommendation of Broadchurch…loved it. You might like The Last Station….
Thanks! Oh, and I love Hoosiers too. That’s another one I will stop and watch. It makes me cry every time!
My list:
Harold and Maude
Moonrise Kingdom
Hugo
Jane Austen movies
Bond Movies with Daniel Craig
Bagdad Cafe
Grosse Pointe Blank
Robin Hood with Russell Crowe
Cary Grant movies
Bagdad Cafe has one of the most beautiful songs, “Calling You” – I have it on my playlist. Hauntingly beautiful!
Some of my favorites: Play Misty For Me
Meet Me In St. Louis
Sleepless In Seattle
Midnight in Paris
Prancer
You’ve Got Mail
Kitty Foyle
Grand Torino
Saving Mr. Banks
Black and White (just saw this at the theatre Friday night; great movie)
That’s the second Kitty Foyle mention. Ginger Rogers would be very happy!
Late to the party!! Here’s mine……nothing too different!
Lady and the Tramp-my very first movie experience
Stage Door
Horse Whisperer
On Golden Pond
The Bishop’s Wife
To Kill A Mockingbird
His Girl Friday
Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House
Heidi
The Big Chill
So great to see everyones picks!
Isn’t it fun? I’m surprised how many times I’ve seen Mr. Blanding Builds His Dream House! Definitely a fan favorite!
Double Indemnity
Body Heat
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Just have to watch these any time they are on.
Double Indemnity – chilling! Such a good movie!
I love most all the movies listed with To Kill a Mockingbird my number 1. I just saw Whiplash which is one of the best movies I’ve seen in quite a while. The audience actually applauded at the end which happens never in my neck of the woods. It was that good and might make my top 10.
I’ve heard very good things about Whiplash, Deb. We’ll have to make sure we see it.
What a great post today! I love most all of the named movies and even though I can’t remember their names by recall, I sure do remember them when reading their name! Thank you!
You are welcome!
1. You Can’t Take it With You
2. Dinner at Eight
3. It Happened One Night
4. The Birds
5.Red Dawn
6. Heartbreak Ridge
7. Matilda
8. Beaches
9.Bringing Up Baby
10. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
It is hard to pick just ten! But these are ones I would stop what I am doing to watch. I have to throw in a few Christmas movies too- The Bells of St.Mary’s, The Bishop ‘s Wife and Elf.
Oh gosh, I forgot about Dinner at Eight, which is also one of my favorites! Love that movie.
I have an overlap of many movies already mentioned. I am adding one that is missing…
The Black Stallion (1979 version) even if you do not like horses the cinematography and music is amazing. The beach scenes with the boy and horse are so beautiful.
The Black Stallion is simply one of the best – I agree. We just watched it again a few weeks back. Stunningly beautiful. Impeccably done.
Love a good story! Here is my list:
1. The Bishop’s Wife
2. The Concert (hear the music in my head for days)
3. De-Lovely
4. Edward Scissorhands
5. The Hunt for Red October (love the submarines!)
6. Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7. Journey for Margaret (cry my eyes out on this Robert Young movie)
8. Midnight in Paris
9. The Taming of the Shrew (Elizabeth Taylor)
10. The Way We Were
Two more I can’t leave off the list:
11. Pride and Prejudice (Colin Firth)
12. Only Angels Have Wings (love the airplanes!)
Hope you are feeling better soon!
Good movies all!
I was at the Lyric or Star theatre every Saturday and quite a few Sundays, growing up. I love movies. I watched my first Oscars at about the age of 10 (1953) and haven’t missed one since. Your top ten is just about the same as my top 10.
Don’t you wish we could still see movies for a quarter? I remember seeing a double feature for 25 cents!
Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Sense & Sensibility, The Wedding Date, Steel Magnolia’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, I’d Climb the Highest Mountain, The Pleasure Seekers, Little Woman, Doctor Zhivago
Just a few of my favorites –
Good list, Laura. I’m getting the itch to watch Sense and Sensibility again!
So many great movies, I just have to add a few.
The Quiet Man
Summertime w/ Katherine Hepburn
Two for the Road
Skyfall
Raiders of the Lost Ark
White Christmas
Meet me in St. Louis
Christmas in Connecticut
Fiddler on the Roof
Two for the Road: all I have to do is hear Mancini’s music and I start to cry.
I hope I can think of 10…..The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1947 with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison, The Guardian, Dirty Dancing, Secondhand Lions, A Time to Kill, The Wizard of Oz, Fatal Attraction, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Birds and Psycho.
I’m late to this game, but love it. My list (in no particular order):
Dances With Wolves
Out of Africa
Cross Creek (love, love, love this one)
Gone With the Wind
Babette’s Feast
Like Water for Chocolage
Monty Python flicks
Network
Arsenic and Old Lace
Julia (NOT Julie & Julia)
The Illusionist
Body Heat
A couple more than 10…hard to stop, and I’m not even a HUGE moviei fan – lol
Oh this is great! So sorry that I’m late to the party. I have a list of 10 but being that I love movies so very much it is certainly not correct to say that these are my only favorites. I could never pick just 10! I adore the movies shown on TCM – I watch all the time. So here’s my short list……Have a wonderful day Claudia!
Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Shop Around the Corner
An Affair to Remember
The Family Stone
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Bridges of Madison County
Out of Africa
Lincoln
Sabrina – actually ANYTHING with Audrey is wonderful
Little Women – I actually love all three versions – Kathryn Hepburn in the first, Elizabeth Taylor in the second and Susan Sarandon and Wynonna Ryder were great in the latest
And I must add anything with Carey Grant I love.
Add on: watched Random Harvest this morning.
I’m just reading this post, but had to add my favorites: Gone With the Wind, Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire, Titanic (Kate Winslet version), The Out-of-Towners (Jack Lemmon version), Die Hard (and anything with Alan Rickman), The Russians are Coming The Russians are Coming, Independence Day, Home Alone, The Incredible Journey (the original narrated by Rex Allen), The Long Long Trailer, Jurassic Park, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, The Big Chill. Yes, more than ten, but what’s life without excess?
1. Jeremiah Johnson
2. Mrs. Miniver
3. An Affair to Remember
4. Imitation of Life
5. Cold Mountain
6. This Property is Condemned
7. It’s a Wonderful Life
8. Arsenic & Old Lace
9. The Egg & I
10. The Goodbye Girl
To Kill A Mockingbird
Room with a View
Remember the Titans
Mr. Holland’s Opus
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Breakfast Club
The Quiet Man
Popeye with Robin Williams
and It’s 11 – but I can’t leave off Monty Python and the Holy Grail
In no particular order —
Unfaithful
Nights in Rodanthe (OK, any movie with Diane Lane!)
Goodfellas
1,000 Things I Hate About You (yes a teen flick, but it’s when I fell in love with Heath Ledger)
White Christmas
Same Time Next Year
The Four Seasons (any movie with Alan Alda!)
The English Patient
Oklahoma
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The very tippy, top of my list is “Inn of the Sixth Happiness”. A REAL love story. Ingrid Bergman and Curt Jurgens. Think I will watch it tomorrow.
I’m on vacation at the beach, so am a little late with my list, but here it is:
1. Singin’ in the Rain
2. Friendly Persuasion
3. E.T.
4. Roman Holiday
5. Good Will Hunting
6. The Enchanted Cottage
7. The Way We Were
8. Annie Hall
9. The Graduate
10. Boyhood and Her (a tie)
Hard to choose just ten!
Room with a View – My all time favorite!!!!!!!
The Accidental Tourist
Harold & Maude
Waitress
Rushmore
Best in Show
Cinema Paradiso
Hairspray (the original – Debbie Harry, Divine, etc.)
Amelie
The Intouchables
Love Actually
Like Water for Chocolate
Annie Hall
The Graduate
Shall We Dance? (Japanese version)
Jump Tomorrow
Johnny Stecchino
The Darjeeling Limited
Hi Claudia. I am late to the list. I have read every post since before Christmas, but have not replied because I didn’t feel like I could put together a coherent sentence, I still don’t know if I can. but a list is different.
In no particular order:
Wizard of Oz
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harvey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
E.T.
Dirty Dancing
Sabrina
The Shop Around the Corner
The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
On Golden Pond
Where Trouble Goes Angels Follow